Playwright Michel Vinaver has passed away
The playwright and ex-French entrepreneur died Sunday in Paris at the age of 95, announced his daughter, actress Anouk Grinberg.
French playwright and former entrepreneur Michel Vinaver died in Paris on Sunday at the age of 95, his daughter, actress Anouk Grinberg, told AFP.
Son of an antique dealer and a lawyer, Michel Vinaver – Grinberg of his real name – has for nearly 30 years led a double life: executive then director of the Gillette group and playwright.
He first wrote two novels before coming to the theater in 1955, two years after his hiring at Gillette. “I had ruled out from the outset to depend on my literary production to live,” he told AFP in 2015.
“I had set myself a ban: not to talk about me and my work.”
His first plays, “Les Coreans” – created by Roger Planchon in 1956 – and “Les Huissiers” have nothing to do with the life as a manager of this father of four children, including Anouk Grinberg.
Nominated three times for the Molières
“I had set myself a ban: not to talk about me and my work,” he told AFP. After a few parts, it’s the breakdown. “I came out of it by lifting this taboo”. He writes “Overboard”: the story of the absorption of a French family company by an American multinational.
From then on, the company took a central place in the work of the man who would be nominated three times for the Molières (awards devoted to theatre) and winner of the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie française in 2006.
Thus, “The Works and the Days” takes place in the after-sales service of a coffee grinder manufacturer. In “The Job Demand”, the main character is an unemployed executive. In “The Ordinary”, which entered the repertoire of the prestigious Comédie-Française in 2009, the president of a multinational, his wife, his secretary and four vice-presidents survived a plane crash in the Andes mountain range.
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